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| Jammu has no journalist of any standing | | Kashmiri message from Islamabad | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 23: On Saturday, two major developments took place at Islamabad, Pakistan. One was that the Pakistan Foreign Office (PFO) said no to talks with New Delhi on the issue of terror. There is no need to reflect on this development, as everyone is aware of this development that led to the cancellation of National Security Advisor-level talks between India and Pakistan, which were to be held in New Delhi on Monday. The other was the formation of a group consisting of 29 journalists from this and other part of Jammu & Kashmir. The conference or meeting, called "first of its kind," was organized by Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) and Center for Peace Development and Reforms (CPDR) in association with Kashmir Initiative Group. It was attended by journalists from both parts of Jammu and Kashmir, who discussed for two days "a range of issues related to their profession and their role in the conflict". "The thrust of the deliberations was on how to improve the contact across the line of divide and try to reach out to the readers of the region with accurate information," a report from Islamabad said.
The report further said: "Stressing on the need for building linkages across the Line of Control (LoC) to help build a peaceful atmosphere in the region, a group of 29 journalists, from both parts of divided Jammu and Kashmir, have pledged to work in this direction. The journalists came up with several recommendations and urged both India and Pakistan to facilitate implementing them and remove barriers on movement of journalists on both the sides". "The conference concluded with following recommendations: content sharing (news, feature and photo aggregate); publishing apolitical stories from the two regions; creating joint social media groups including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp; holding frequent interactions on a timely basis," the report also said.
The meeting also made several recommendations and one of them read: "Involving media departments on both sides of LoC and deliver Skype lectures to journalism students; publish a six-monthly newsletter (online and print), give away awards for the best cross-LoC reporting and coming up with directory of Kashmiri journalists working all over the world".
The journalists, who took part in the Islamabad conference, also formed a joint four-member group charged with the responsibility of sharing "content" between the different media organizations. The members of the group included Raashid Maqbool and Hakeem Irfan (Srinagar) and Khalid Gardezi and Samar Abbas (Muzaffarabad). Besides the formation of the four-member group, the participants in the meeting also constituted a "joint working group" of journalists, which would "further build up the linkages". And the members of the working committee that was constituted during the meeting included "Shujaat Bukhari, Ershad Mahmud, Abid Khurshid (ATV), Abid Sidiq (Daily Dharti), Shehzaad Rathore (Daily Jammu Kashmir), Altaf Hamid Rao (The Nation), Athar Masood Wani (Kasheer Weekly), Amina Amir (Bol TV), Asif Raza Mir (Daily Express), Iftikhar Gillani (DNA), Mehmood Rashid (Greater Kashmir), Tariq Ali Mir (Belag Sahafat), Peerzada Ashiq (Hindustan Times), Farooq Javed Khan (EPA), Shahana Butt (Press TV) and Mohammad Aslam Bhat (KNS Srinagar)".
Just look at the composition of the four-member group and the working committee and you will reach the right conclusion in no time and without any difficulty. All belong to one community and one sect and the fact that the meeting took place at the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, should speak for itself. The conference didn't find any journalist from Jammu region fit for becoming part of the four-member group or the working committee. That not a single journalist from Jammu was included in any of the bodies of the Pakistan-backed newly-founded groups suggests many things. Suffice to say that it is a very serious development. The question to be asked is: Have the Jammu-based journalists and journalists from Jammu and agencies taken note of this development. |
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